Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-04-30

Central, equally expeditions and
equally safe, getting to their destl-
nation at tic same time. But sup
pose that hear that on one route
the track is torn up, the bridges are
down and the switches are
unlocked, it will not take me a
great while to decide which road to
take. Now, there are two roads III
the Inturc-thc Christian and the
I'm Christian. the safe and unsafe.
ANY institution ar anyasSoclatlon
that contus es my ideas in regard TO
that tact is Il bad institution anu a
bad association. l had prayers be-
fore | Joined that society, did |
have them afterwards l attended
the house of God before connected
myself With thatunion, do | absent
myself from religious Influences
Which would you rather have IN
Your hand when You come to dc
Il pack of cards ora bible: winch
wonld YOU rather have pressed 10
your lips in the closing momentthe
cup Of BelSIazzareau wasSall orlhe
chalice of Christian communion!
Who would You rather have for
YOUR pall bearerS-the elders OF a
Christian church, or the compan-
iouS whose conversation WAS full OF
Slang and innuendoY Who would
YOU rather have for your eternal
companions-thoSc men who spend
their evenings betting, gambling,
swearing, carousing and telling vile
stories, or Your little child, that
bright girl whom the Lord tooks
Oh, You would not have been away
so much nights, would you, if you
had known she was going away so
soon7 Dear me, your home has
never been the same place since
Your wife has never frightened up,
she has never got over it. She
never will get over it. How long
the evenings are with no one to put
10 bed, and no one to whom to tell
the beautiful stores.
What a pity it is that you cannot
spend more evenings at home III
trying to help her bear that sorrow.
You can never drown that grief in
the wine cup. You can never break
away from the little AIMS that used
to be flung around your neck when
she used TO say "Papa, do stay with
me to night. DO stay with me to-
night" You will never be able to
wipe away from your lips the diving
kiss OF your little girl. The lascina-
ton of ii bad secret society is so
great that sometimes man has
turned his back on his home when
his child was dying of scarlet fever.
He vent away. Before he got back
at midnight the eyes had been
closed, the undertaken had done
his work, and the wife, worn out
with three wee, ks Watching, lay
unconscious in the next ROOM
Then the returned father comes up
stairs, and he sees the cradle gone
and the windows MP, and says:
What is the NATTER. On the
Judgment Day he will find ont what
was the matter.
Oh, man asllay, God help you! l
am going to make IL very stoutrope.
You know that sometimes Il rope
maker will take very small threads
ana wind item together until ai,er
while they become ship cable.
And l ALI going to take some very
small delicate threads and wind
them together until they make a
very stout rope. | will take all the
memories of the marriage day
thread of laughter, a thread OF
light, a thread of music, a thread
OF banqneting, ii bread of congri't-
ulatlon, and twist them together
and have one strand. Then |
take Thread of the hour Of the
first advent in your house, a thread
of tie darkness that preceded. and
Ii thread of the light that followed;
and thread of the beautiful scarf
that little child used to wear when
size bounded out at eventlde to
greet you: and then a thread OF
tie beautiful dress IN which you
laid her away for he resurrection;
and then twist all these threads
together, and ! have anotberstrand
Then | take a thread of the scarlet
robe Of the suffering Christ, and a
thread of the white raiment ofyouT
loved ones before he throne, and
Il string OF ilie harp clcrubic, and
string OF the harp seraphlc, and |
twist them altogether, and [ have a
third strand. "Oh,' you say, ''eith-
er strand is enough to hold fast a
world" No; | will take these
strands and | will twist them to-
gether, and one end of that rope
will fasten, not to the communion
table, fer it shall be removed; not
10 a pillar of the organ, for that
Will crumble in the ages; but wind
it round and round the cross of a
sympathizing Christ, and, having
fastened one endofthe rope to the
cross, throw tie other end t0yOu
Lay hold of ii! Pull for your life
Pull for Heaven.